Russian · For teachers

Every Russian printable, chapter by chapter

The whole Russian curriculum in one place, mapped to its 1 chapters and 24 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.

Chapter 1 · How Russian works

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  1. How Russian worksIntroduction

    The alphabet is a week. The cases are months. Aspect is years. Here is what actually makes Russian hard, and it is not what you expect.

  2. Thirty-three letters sorted into the ones you know, the false friends that catch everyone, and the two that make no sound at all. You never have to type them here.

  3. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  4. They replace the articles and word order English needs. The endings overlap heavily, they yield to drilling, and they become automatic within months.

  5. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  6. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  7. Six endings in the present, four in the past, and the verb to be disappears entirely. The past tense is easier than the present.

  8. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  9. Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

  10. Almost every verb is a pair, and English gives you no instinct for choosing between them. Start noticing it on day one.

  11. Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

  12. Read: Den i vremyaGraded-reader story

    Someone who never has time, and the day he stays. Every word in it comes from this chapter.

  13. I, no, aThemed review

    The connectives and particles that hold Russian sentences together, including the two words for but that English cannot tell apart.

  14. Arcade reviewReview games

    Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.

  15. Word printables

    Per-word sheets

    100 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each